SyntaxError

Class

Raised when encountering Ruby code with an invalid syntax.

eval("1+1=2")

raises the exception:

SyntaxError: (eval):1: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting $end

Class Methods

SyntaxError.new([msg]) → syntax_error

error.c View on GitHub

          
            static VALUE
syntax_error_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
{
    VALUE mesg;
    if (argc == 0) {
        mesg = rb_fstring_cstr("compile error");
        argc = 1;
        argv = &mesg;
    }
    return rb_call_super(argc, argv);
}

Construct a SyntaxError exception.